They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.
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I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.
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Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile,...
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of ...
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
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True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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